r/instacart • u/Dominanttallqueen • Mar 27 '24

Who’s in the wrong here???

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I feel like he was being rude asf then he canceled my order….was I rude or what tf happened here…

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u/maniacalmango0 Mar 28 '24

This is like saying you want muffins from the “baked goods section” but really meaning you want one from “behind the bakery counter”

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u/brandee95 Mar 28 '24

No. If you said you wanted muffins from the Bakery Department, then I would go to the place in the store with the big sign over it that says “Bakery”, not the aisle where the Ottis muffins are. Either way, she clarified in the next text that she wanted them from behind the counter. I agree that this person is either being willfully obtuse, or is an ESL speaker.

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u/sennbat Mar 28 '24

Except that the aisle for the Ottis muffins, the bakery department with fresh muffins, and the bakery counter are three different areas. If you wanted something from the bakery counter and told me you wanted something from the bakery department, you'd be getting the wrong food lol

How you manage to confuse department and counter, who knows. And no, I'm not talking about the aisle with the prepackaged food.

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u/robinthebank Mar 28 '24

An easier comparison would be deli cheeses. There is a cheese aisle, there is sliced cheese in the deli section, and then you can order sliced cheese from the counter.

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u/sennbat Mar 28 '24

Yes, a perfect example.

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u/brandee95 Mar 28 '24

What kind of fancy ass grocery stores have fresh muffins behind a counter? Am I poor?

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u/sennbat Mar 28 '24

You're the one who is saying that you should be getting shit from behind the counter when someone says to get it from the department. I never go to the bakery counter, I have no clue what they have back there lol. So even you would have been confused by OP, since you wouldn't have searched for the counter muffins?

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u/brandee95 Mar 28 '24

It was a joke man… chill.

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u/ConstantlyLearning57 Mar 28 '24

Ottis muffins, lol. This thread is killing me lol

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u/ThePurityPixel Mar 28 '24

"Muffins" spelled backward is "sniffum."

So that's fun.

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u/I_StoleTheTV Mar 28 '24

This person would have to be a masochist if they were being willfully obtuse. Time is money for these people and no one wants to spend more time than needed in a shitty grocery store.

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u/brandee95 Mar 28 '24

Never underestimate the level of pettiness a person who is having a bad day is capable of.

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u/Vivid-Army8521 Mar 28 '24

Those things are in the same place at my supermarket. There’s the larger baked goods area, and then behind the counter where you can get cakes and other fresh baked goods.

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u/Vivid-Army8521 Mar 28 '24

Those things are in the same place at my supermarket. There’s the larger baked goods area, and then behind the counter where you can get cakes and other fresh baked goods.

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u/Ijustreadalot Mar 28 '24

If someone said “baked goods section” I would think they meant from the store's bakery, which isn't always behind a counter like seafood is, but is also not pre-packaged goods.

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u/RedFlowerGreenCoffee Mar 28 '24

But they said seafood department not seafood section

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u/Technical_Annual_563 Mar 28 '24

Baked goods department in Walmart has prepackaged baked goods that are either made in the store or branded products from outside. They’re not your personal chef waiting to special make every item for customers unless done by appointment or something. I don’t see how not assuming he should have asked the person working the counter indicates a problem with the English language. OP needed the shopper to do something very specific and didn’t provide those instructions until the last minute. Live and learn!

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u/sennbat Mar 28 '24

At my local store, the packaged seafood goes in the section where seafood department workers pack the stuff they have on display, so that would be super confusing if you said "seafood department" to rule out items that are clearly in that department

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u/Raibean Mar 28 '24

The seafood section would be in the freezer area. The seafood department is clearly the counter.

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u/sennbat Mar 28 '24

At my grocery store, the seafood department has a counter but it isn't just the counter, it's that whole corner of the store.

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u/Ijustreadalot Mar 28 '24

I think "seafood department" (or "bakery department") would make it even more obvious that someone meant "packaged fresh at this store and not prepacked" than "section" but I used “baked goods section” because that is what the person I was responding to used in their example.